TFS 2012 Web Access Assigning Default Area and Iteration Paths

Question

I have an issue with TFS 2012. When ever a user creates a work item in TFS 2012, TFS is assigning the area path and iteration path to a default value of:

Area Path: Team Project\Sub Category 1\X Iteration Path: Team Project\Sprint Y

Instead of making the users chose the area and iteration paths from the root nodes of:

Area Path: Team Project Iteration Path: Team Project

However, this is only appearing in TFS Web access. I checked my work items and they do not have any code to set a default area or iteration path within the xml. Anyone know what might be the cause?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Web Access uses the Team's default area (and sprint depending on where you add the work item) as it's default when creating workitems. This is meant to be a convenience.

You can edit the Web Access experience to show fields for this on the Quick Add bar by updating the process template.